Historical Alumni of Rostock

The university has promoted an extraordinary project for several years now. In its Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium, the university lists all professors and leading minds of the university from its foundation in 1419 on.

Hermann Roesler (1834-1894), Economist and Jurist, 1861-1878 Professor of Political Economics, later consultant to the Japanese government regarding the reform of the legal system modelled on European systems

Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927) Physician and Physiologist, Doctorate degree at the University of Rostock in 1878, later Nobel laureate Medicine

Eugen Geinitz (1854-1925), Geologist and Mineralogist, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology, Director of the Mineralogical-Geological Institute

Felix Genzmer (1878-1959), Jurist and Expert of Scandinavian studies, Translator of the Edda songs, Ordinarius of Public Law from 1920 to 1922

Gustav Mie (1868-1957), Physicist, Studied Physics at the University of Rostock from 1886 to 1889

Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Philosopher, Habilitation in 1911, lecturer from 1911 to 1921, later initiator of the Viennese Circle; at the Institute of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities

Viktor Schilling (1883-1960), Physician, Co-founder of Hematology, Head of the University hospital

David Katz (1884-1953), Psychologist, from 1919-1933 Extraordinarius, later Ordinarius, conferred to emerited status by the National Socialists due to his Jewish origins

Hans Moral (1885-1933), ab 1920 erst from 1920 on international significant Extraordinarius, later Ordinarius of Dentistry, committed suicide after he was dismissed because of his Jewish origins; commemorative plaque in the foyer of the main university building

Walter Hallstein (1901-1982), Politician and Jurist, Professor of Private Law and Company Law from 1930 to 1941, later State Secretary in the German Chancellors Office and the Foreign Office and President of the European Economic Community Commission

Arno Esch (1928-1951), Studied law, active member of the Liberal Democratic Party, condemned to death as declared opponent of communism; commemorative plaque in the foyer of the main university building